Cross the line if you wish that everything would change, but that sinking feeling in your stomach tells you that nothing will ever be different.
(Source: crosstheline, via musicalfan)
“Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could all be a little more gentle with each other, and a little more loving, have a little more empathy, and maybe we’d like each other a little bit more.
- Judy Garland (via misswallflower)
“I’m the light and heat of every sun,
I’m a bullet from a magic gun,
And I’m trying to enjoy it
But I’m missing all the fun.
I’m a bullet from a magic gun,
And I’m trying to enjoy it
But I’m missing all the fun.
- Wish I Were Here - Next to Normal. (via prettylights)
(Source: government--unicorn, via nicolemwright)
“Literary references and allusions”
- During Act I, Gabe reads a paperback copy of The Catcher in the Rye. Kyle Dean Massey said, “I read about a page a night.” Salinger’s novel about grieving a loss, ironically is read by the character who is the loss. In Catcher, Holden struggles with the loss of a brother, Allie, who died of leukemia.
- Natalie carries a hardcover copy of Flowers for Algernon, which she is studying in school. Both the novel and “Next to Normal” deal with psychological experimentation.
- Diana alludes to One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Sylvia Plath, and Frances Farmer in the song “Didn’t I See This Movie?”.
- Diana also reads from Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, a play by Edward Albee which deals with marital stress caused by similar issues of “Next to Normal”. On her YouTube site, Alice Ripley said that she uses Albee’s play as a bible, drawing inspiration for Diana.
